“Lyra, I would never readily wish to hurt you.I promise you I wasn’t myself when it happened.Emelda confessed to bewitching me. I don’t know how or where she got whatever she used to do it, but it was no ordinary act.”Lyra watched me without uttering a word.I tried to make out her feelings from her reaction.She was barely showing any.Only that she no longer gazed at me contemptuously.I was desperate for something, anything, from her. “Lyra, come on. Say something. I’m not trying to dodge responsibility here, I just… I need you to get where I’m coming from.”She finally spoke, all calm and distant, “Emelda confessed? When was this?”I sighed heavily.Almost sagging with relief that she was talking at all."After you left, she came to me, begging for forgiveness. She told me everything, about the potion, about how she manipulated me into been with her."Lyra’s eyes narrowed, like she was searching through my soul. “And you just…believe her?”I clenched my jaw. “Yeah. I mean, she
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